Luke 15:8 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 15:8

Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she find it?

KJV

Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

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Commentary

5 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Exposition of the Gospel of Luke (397)

The woman did not idly rejoice to find her coin. The coin, having the image of the emperor, is not ordinary. The image of the King is the register of the church. We are sheep. Let us pray that he would be pleased to place us beside the water of rest. We are sheep. Let us seek pastures. We are coins. Let us have a price. We are sons. Let us hurry to the Father. Let us not fear because we have squandered the inheritance of spiritual dignity that we received on earthly pleasures.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

LETTER VII.2 (397)

The price of the soul is faith. Faith is the lost drachma that the woman in the Gospel seeks diligently. We read that she lit a candle and swept her house. After finding it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, inviting them to rejoice with her because she has found the drachma that she had lost. The damage to the soul is great if one has lost the faith or the grace that he has gained for himself at the price of faith. Light your lamp. "Your lamp is your eye," that is, the interior eye of the soul.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Observe, (1.) The repentance and conversion of sinners on earth are matter of joy and rejoicing in heaven. It is possible that the greatest sinners may be brought to repentance. While there is life there is hope, and the worst are not to be despaired of; and the worst of sinners, if they repent and turn, shall find mercy.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Ten pieces of silver - Δραχμας δεκα, ten drachmas. I think it always best to retain the names of these ancient coins, and to state their value in English money. Every reader will naturally wish to know by what names such and such coins were called in the countries in which they were current. The Grecian drachma was worth about sevenpence three farthings of our money; being about the same value as the Roman denarius. The drachma that was lost is also a very expressive emblem of a sinner who is estranged from God, and enslaved to habits of iniquity.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

(1858)

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἢ	Ē	Or	G2228 →
τίς	tis	what	G5101 →
γυνὴ	gunē	woman	G1135 →
δραχμὰς	drachmas	drachmas	G1406 →
ἔχουσα	echousa	having	G2192 →
δέκα,	deka	ten,	G1176 →
ἐὰν	ean	if	G1437 →
ἀπολέσῃ	apolesē	she may lose	G622 →
δραχμὴν	drachmēn	drachma	G1406 →
μίαν,	mian	one,	G1520 →
οὐχὶ	ouchi	surely	G3780 →
ἅπτει	haptei	she lights	G681 →
λύχνον	luchnon	a lamp	G3088 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
σαροῖ	saroi	she sweeps	G4563 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
οἰκίαν	oikian	house	G3614 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ζητεῖ	zētei	she seeks	G2212 →
ἐπιμελῶς	epimelōs	carefully	G1960 →
ἕως	he'ōs	until	G2193 →
οὗ	hou	it	G3739 →
εὕρῃ;	heurē	she may find?	G2147 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
leads to
- Ezekiel 34:16
  I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
- Matthew 1:21
  She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- 1 Timothy 1:13–16
  I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
- Luke 5:31–32
  Jesus answered, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
- Luke 15:4–7
  “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds…
Through
John 10:16
I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.
leads to
- Isaiah 56:8
  Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”
- John 11:52
  and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.
- 1 Peter 2:25
  For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.